About a month ago I upgraded from Eudora 4.3 to Eudora 5.1 (email client software). When I first bought Eudora 4.0, it came with a PGP plug-in, which was licensed from NAI (it may have been PGP, Inc at that time). At some point, when I was downloading and installing the version 4.x upgrades, the PGP plug-in stopped working. It definitely wasn't working with Eudora 4.3. That was the main reason I decided to upgrade to Eudora 5.x: I wanted a working email client program that supported PGP mail. Surprisingly, Qualcomm seems to have nothing to do with PGP! There is no PGP plug-in for Eudora 5.x. I spent hours on the web searching for a PGP plug-in for Eudora 5.1, with no success. So, what happened? Why couldn't Qualcomm renew their license with NAI? Was NAI asking too much? Or did Qualcomm find that so few people used PGP that it was no longer worth their efforts to support the plug-in? If that's true, why not allow customers to use the plug-in as an unsupported plug-in?
The fact that Qualcomm's Eudora no longer has anything to do with PGP does not look good for PGP. Microsoft is firmly behind S/MIME when it comes to choosing between S/MIME and OpenPGP. I believe Netscape has also chosen the S/MIME side. Qualcomm had been one of the few strong supporters of PGP. Now Qualcomm has abandoned it. The chances for broad adoption of PGP does not look good.
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The fact that Qualcomm's Eudora no longer has anything to do with PGP does not look good for PGP. Microsoft is firmly behind S/MIME when it comes to choosing between S/MIME and OpenPGP. I believe Netscape has also chosen the S/MIME side. Qualcomm had been one of the few strong supporters of PGP. Now Qualcomm has abandoned it. The chances for broad adoption of PGP does not look good.